Geoffrey Long is a media analyst, scholar, and storyteller exploring transmedia experiences, emerging entertainment platforms and the future of entertainment as the Lead Narrative Producer for the Narrative Design Team at Microsoft Studios. He is an alum of the MIT Comparative Media Studies program, a FoE Fellow with the Futures of Entertainment community, and a co-editor of the Playful Thinking book series from the MIT Press. His personal site can be found at geoffreylong.com.
January 17, 2007 – 10:26 pm
From the writing weblog Paperback Writer: “I don’t see what the big deal is,” Jane snapped. “Sure, I know the rules. My protagonist should have been a recovering crack whore hiding from the cops in a flop house room with a sometimes-boyfriend named Wife Beater–“ Heh. That pretty much sums up most of the people […]
January 17, 2007 – 2:09 pm
Okay, so two conferences do not a ‘tour’ make, but I’ll be presenting a paper called “Transmedia Storytelling at the Jim Henson Company” at the 2007 Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference in Chicago on March 11th, and another one called “Radial Narrative Maps and Mike Mignola’s Hellboy” at the Media in Transition Conference […]
January 14, 2007 – 11:49 pm
If anyone out there is considering placing an order with the online retailer Buy.com, don’t. A few weeks ago I used the Google Checkout promotion (now ended) to pick up a bunch of stuff on deep discount after Christmas. Most of my purchases came through fine, but one of the orders has been screwed up […]
January 12, 2007 – 1:45 pm
“Modest doubt is the beacon of the wise.” – Shakespeare “Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.” – Shakespeare
January 11, 2007 – 6:08 pm
After poking around a little more, I discovered this post at TUAW that shows HBO doing exactly what I’ve proposed. Nice proof of concept, even if I’m not that interested in Extras. Hopefully this is a sign of other, better things to come.
January 11, 2007 – 4:27 pm
I am curious as to why there haven’t been more fictional narratives told in the form of video podcasts and iTunes. I’m uninterested in fictional narratives told as weblog entries, and am much more interested in the use of podcasts for delivery of independent serialized stories. The release of the Apple TV device is intriguing […]
January 10, 2007 – 9:55 pm
I just finished watching M. Night Shymalan’s latest film, Lady in the Water, and I thought it was brilliant. The fact that it didn’t fare so well in the box office ($42.2M, whereas The Village took in nearly $114.2M domestic) suggests that either the film was woefully mismarketed or that my fellow Americans have no […]
January 10, 2007 – 9:25 pm
I just wanted to post a quick note here to say that if it seems like I’ve been extraordinarily quiet lately, it’s because most of my writing hasn’t been for public consumption. Today saw the publication of a 3,800+ word piece for the members-only C3 Newsletter titled “Winning the Console Wars with User-Generated Content”, last […]
January 8, 2007 – 11:14 am
This is why it’s a great time to be in media right now: unique, compelling, innovative games like Hotel Dusk: Room 215 for the Nintendo DS, which is hand-drawn in a noir style. It reminds me a lot of Deja Vu for the 8-bit NES. Ahh, those were the days.
January 8, 2007 – 10:54 am
Straight from the “Hey, I thought of that!” department: ProfileLinker, a new system for linking all your social network profiles in one central location. I’m curious to see how they did this — I was under the impression that Friendster and MySpace weren’t about to open up their APIs to anything like this. (Hat tip […]
